Life's a breeze in Belize

With its manatees and monkeys, this small mainland country is great for nature lovers, says Claire Wrathall.

There aren't many manatees left in the Caribbean - perhaps a thousand - and we weren't looking for them. But when our guide, Clive Garbutt, cut the motor of his small boat, everything fell quiet and there, sending ripples across the placid surface, was a wrinkled, whiskery snout followed by a pair of sad seal eyes. Then another smaller head came up for air - a calf! Then another, and another. We had happened on a herd.

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